This is my dear old Granny’s recipe. She was a fabulous baker and used to make extra money for the family by selling her wares. I remember when we went to her house she ALWAYS had home-baked scones or traybakes to give us. This was the first recipe of hers that I asked for, I remember trying to write it out as neatly as I could when she was telling me lol.. I didn’t see buttermilk here in England for a long time, but suddenly Asda & Morrisons have started selling it! So, give them a go – yummy wheaten scones!
Ingredients:
10 oz (284g) wholemeal flour
4 oz (113g) plain flour
1 tsp salt
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
4 oz (113g) butter
2 oz (57g) granulated sugar
8fl oz (237ml) buttermilk
1 egg beaten
* all conversions are approximate
Method:
1. Preheat oven to 220 C
2. Mix all dry ingredients into a bowl, then rub in butter with your fingers until it resembles a crumble. Then stir in the sugar.
3. Mix the buttermilk and egg together and add to the dry ingredients. Stir all together. The mixture will be a little moist but don’t worry that’s how it is meant to be!
4. Knead the mixture very lightly on a floured surface and then cut out scone shapes with a cutter.
5. Cook on the top shelf for approx 15 minutes.
6. Eat warm with lots of butter or leave to cool! Yum 
These are probably Gary’s favourite thing that I bake (he doesn’t have as much of a sweet tooth as me lol).. he will do anything for me to make them…. Well OK, maybe not the hoovering, or the washing up….!
Just made these – taste great even though I forgot a bit of the butter. Healthier for me
it is a wet horrible day in Sydney Australia so a perfect day to make a taste of home! You mention a wheaten bread recipe above and have tried searching but I don't think it is posted. Any chance of posting? Also welcomed would be a soda bread recipe and fudge…..Its the weather what can I say. Lovely site and great looking cakes on your facebook. I wonder how well they post…..
If you ever pop home, try the wheaten bread at the Parson's Nose in Hillsborough. Absolutely fantastic as is the rest of the food and some local brews!
Thank you so much for this recipe. You have made my day here in Perth Australia!! Originally from northern Ireland and missing the food from home. So made these and they went down a treat!
Brilliant!
loooking forward to tryng these – the recipe I tried today made good cricket balls – i hadn't the heart to throw them out for the birdies as they might have brokent heir beaks on them!
I'll be making these more and more they are fantastic!!!! Well done your granny and thank you. I'm from Derry and have tried lots of wheaten scones these beat them all.
Interesting stuff! I travelled to Britain this summer and had some afternoon tea with scones , and it was so delicious I thought I'd make my own last week. I might have deviated from the norm though – I found a website full of random scone recipes here and made 5 different ones! My friends were so happy when I brought them round for tea and scones, complete with real whipped cream. Great fun!
These look yumbo jumbo! I've never even heard of wheaten scones, but I'm a huge fan of scones.. my Grandma used to make them too and she'd always make a special batch for me without raisins/sultanas/other evilness
I like how you post step-by-step type photos too – whenever I'm following recipes I always wonder at most stages 'is this how it's meant to look?!'
Lol.. yeah they are jumbo scones! I like to make them bigger so if I only eat one I'm actually eating 2 small ones lol…:)
Oh my god oh my god oh my god.
The FIRST thing I have to do when I go over to Northern Ireland to visit family (my Mum's from Belfast) is buy wheaten bread. And then eat the whole loaf and buy more. And more. And make sure I come back with some.
No-one understands the awesomeness of the wheaten-ness!!
There's a big Tesco near me which also sells buttermilk, I have substituted low fat plain yoghurt for it as well and it seems to work fine.
Writing this down IMMEDIATELY!
Lol…! I have a fab fab recipe for wheaten bread as well, will post it soon! Hope you try these & enjoy